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GOP Hypocrite Randall Tobias, Head of USAID, Resigns After Prostitution Comes to Light

by Josh Marshall (from TPM blog)
From TPM: "USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Randall Tobias resigns for 'personal reasons.' Tobias's sudden departure was announced late this afternoon at the Department of State. Tobias was on the DC Madame's customer list. Those were the 'personal reasons' for resigning his position at the State Department."

This guy is another major hypocrite like Ted Haggart. Check this:

"As the Bush administration's so-called 'AIDS czar,' Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS."

Got that? No condoms! Faithfulness! Bet he used condoms with the prostitutes.

and

"On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the 'Pamela Martin and Associates' escort service 'to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage.' Tobias, who is married, said there had been 'no sex,' and that recently he had been using another service 'with Central Americans' to provide massages."

Another so-called moral values asshole bites the dust! Who's next?!?

(April 27, 2007 -- 10:58 PM EST )

As noted below, the 'DC Madame' scandal has now brought down its first big-name DC political figure: Randall Tobias, until about four o'clock this afternoon the head of the US Agency for International Development and Director of US Foreign Assistance at the State Department.

Tobias is mounting what I guess we might call the Haggard defense: no sex, just massages.

But let me clip out just a couple grafs from Brian Ross's and Justin Rood's piece at ABC's The Blotter that show just how richly obscene (and not in the sense most people think) this story really is ...


On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the "Pamela Martin and Associates" escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages.


Another service "with Central Americans." That's what he's using now. This is the guy in charge of America's international aid and development assistance to countries around the world. ("I was using one service that sent Thai broads. Now I get 'em to send Central Americans.") I'm glad this bozo is showing our best face to the world and clearing up any misunderstandings about exploiting people in the Third World.

Here's another good passage ...


As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.


I'm glad Tobias was coming from a place a genuine principle when he tried to stop people in Africa from using condoms to stop the transmission of AIDS. I guess massages count as safe sex though. Lucky he was only getting massages.
-- Josh Marshall
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